Sunday, January 29, 2012

what? no bharat ratna in this year's honors for the cricket god? why? aussies got your tongue?

jan 28th, 2012 CE

i just noticed that the aussies trounced the so-called indian team in cricket. and, yet again, the jewel of india fails to win the bharat ratna. all fixed, these honors, i tell you!

why, i wonder, hasn't the great cricketing legend won the bharat ratna this year?

is it because they are waiting for him to take on the surname 'nehru' or 'gandhi' as i surmised?

9 comments:

non-carborundum said...

He has to score 100th century. Till then everything will be on hold.

US said...

I think you need to keep to politics,s/w and may be some poetry - but definitely not cricket...even a little analysis of the Master would wake you up to his immense contributions (especially when the Indian team had shady characters who would sell matches an theirs souls for a few dollars)....

Anonymous said...

What, you don't know that Rajiv was the topper of IIMA while doing his MBA (which the lesser mortal prefer to call Master of Bluff Affairs). Core competence is left to us. He is an authority on every topic under the sun. Bless the MBAs.

nizhal yoddha said...

your comment is excellent example of the success of 'truth by repeated assertion'. this is exactly how other 'great men' and 'great women' have been manufactured, eg. jawaharlal, mteresa et al.

goebbels put it best: you tell a big lie boldly, and you keep on telling it, eventually it becomes the truth.

it is not at all clear what 'great contributions' sachin has made, or why he is the 'greatest player' ever. people just mouth that because some TV bozo says so.

meanwhile more important players languish. there's a much greater hero (if 'hero' makes any sense in such a triviality as cricket -- i mean how come nobody talks about kabaddi's 'heros'? is cricket any more significant than kabaddi, or world wrestling federation?) currently playing cricket -- rahul dravid.

here's my column on dravid. http://www.firstpost.com/ideas/the-karna-syndrome-and-rahul-dravid-as-the-hero-60411.html

nizhal yoddha said...

how intriguing, @datacruncher! i guess i should go ask iima for an MBA based on your recommendation. will you tell them i'll be coming, and they should keep my degree ready? by the way, they don't grant MBAs, they grant PGDMs.

i have always noticed this about indians: i can say rude things about *anybody*, including their mothers, their teachers, their scientists, their politicians -- and most indians will shrug philosophically. but oh, if i say something rude about the cricket god, all hell breaks loose. why is that? is it because people secretly know that the god has feet of clay but are reluctant to admit it? sort of the 'convert syndrome' -- you believe, and you have to prove that you believe more than the next guy? although you are not quite sure what you believe and why you believe?

it's amazing, the power the media to dumb down people. i used to wonder about how the US media got people to obsess on trash like christopher cross (remember that stupid "sailing"?). now the indian media gets people to obsess on jazzy gift (that execrable "lajjavathiye") and now "kolaveri di".

kindly persist in your blind faith. may your faith save you, my son, as padres might say.

US said...

To understand Great contributions you have to be a cricket buff and appreciate how single handedly he got India to a 2003 World cup - India started that campaign as no hopers...

To understand why he is a Great player, you need to read Richard Hadlee's analysis..if you question why Richard Hadlee should be considered an authority....well you have no hopes - like I said in the first place, stick to things other than Cricket

Cheer up Rajeev - we have a few things to be proud of - like Sachin. No need to show case your ability to to stand out by such foolish arguments as to why Dravid should be considered a better player...Dravid is a unidimensional test player..there lies the answer, if you know enough about cricket you won't argue that :)

nizhal yoddha said...

nonsense, US.

first, i think you are confusing me with someone who gives a damn about your opinion. go rant on some cricket blog. on this blog cricket is considered on par with bowel movements.

second, if sachin is something to be proud of, then india is doomed. this is like saying we are proud of jawaharlal. in fact sachin is the jawaharlal of cricket, lionized beyond all sense.

Anonymous said...

"on this blog cricket is considered on par with bowel movements. "

And your opinion on cricket is considered like asshole, everyone has one.

nizhal yoddha said...

well, i do have an asshole, but consider that you *are* one.

i remember your comments on this blog before, @datacruncher. you were taking statements by veer savarkar, and dropping words, and twisting the whole thing so that you manufactured a meaning that was the opposite of what was said. when shown that you were a liar and a creep, you went into hibernation. and now your useless god's humiliation has brought you back into action. buzz off, jerk!

as a moderator here, i may just decide to censor any and all of your comments here. i am under no obligation to provide a platform for the likes of you.